Re the 30 hours. Does each side get 15 hours so if republicans do not use all their hours it moves faster???
Each side gets 15 hours, yes. It’s hard to say if the GOP will use all theirs or yield back their time.
Each side gets 15 hours, but let’s say the Republicans want it to go faster, so refrain from giving their allotted one hour speeches, the Dems can(and probably will) hold the Senate floor by taking all 30 hours allowed, with each Democratic Senator using the maximum allowed one hour, till 30 of their members have spoken. The Dems obviously want to drag it out as long as they can.
In any case, the 30 hours runs out at 1 pm, so the cloture vote WILL take place just after 1 pm at the latest today. We need 51 votes in the cloture vote for the Senate to proceed to the final vote. The final vote takes place after another 30 hours of debate after the cloture vote which takes us to Saturday night for the final vote.